Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Test of faith Oculus Rift and PC for 1500

The middle of this month when Lei Feng network reported that Oculus Rift computer configuration requirements for the virtual reality helmet required, Oculus did not disclose the price of Rift. Recently, in Code Conference meeting, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe finally gave a more definitive number: Rift and computer adding up the price should be under $ 1500.

Oculus released PC configuration requirements are as follows:

Nvidia GTX 970/AMD 290 level or higher

Intel i5-4590 or higher

8GB memory

Compatible with HDMI 1.3 video output

2 x USB 3.0 ports

Windows 7 SP1 or later

As can be seen, demanding Rift on the video card, and the PC should be configured according to the requirements asking for $ 1000 to 1200. According to the Lei feng's network news after speculation Rift should be $ 200 to $ 400, and now looks likely to rise.

Iribe also disclosed that the company may introduce additional "solutions" and prices will rise further. He is probably referring to some peripheral devices, can make the experience more realistic.

$ 1500 now is 9300, computer configuration if you are high enough, do not look too much like. If you consider changing your computer, might as well according to the above configuration to buy. Really test of faith when, purse ready for it?

DK1, Oculus DK2 resolutions increased from 640x800 to 960x1080 (up 1920x1080). First generation of products in order to reduce the feeling of dizziness, DK2 OLED using low latency. One of the biggest improvement, believe the DK2 will join a group of detect head movements of the camera, so that players can implement such features as "close" movement, officials said just for this function's optimization team spent a lot of time. In addition, the DK2 gyroscopes, accelerometers and other sensors of the testing frequency will all upgrade to 1000HZ, but the weight will go up to 440 grams. Price was close to the people (although the DK2 still for developers)